Instead of branching out into the restaurant business, Brooks should make clothes of the quality we used to see from them before the 1980s. It would bring customers back, and stop people from leaving the store for other retailers, like Ralph Lauren, that have better made clothes, and not coincidentally, higher profitability.

Doesn't New York already have a legion of steakhouses? So opening yet another steakhouse in New York makes as much sense as opening an Italian restaurant in Boston's North End, with the owners having no experience with Italian cuisine. Or food. Btw, the three year failure rate for restaurants is 60%.